SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY/Websites

African Muslims in antebellum America: transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles. Rev. and updated ed. New York: Routledge, 1997. 194 p.

Bearden, Romare. A history of African-American artists from 1792 to the present. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. 541 p.

Blassingame, John W. The slave community: plantation life in the Antebellum South. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Curtin, Philip D. The Atlantic slave trade: a census. Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1969.

James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. 2nd ed., rev. New York: Vintage, 1963.

Kaplan, Sidney. The Black presence in the era of the American Revolution. Rev. ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1989. 305 p.

Landsmark, Theodore Carlisle. “Haunting echoes”: histories and exhibition strategies for collecting nineteenth-century African American crafts. – 1999. 3 v. (Dissertation, Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1999)

Patterson, Orlando. The sociology of slavery. London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1967.

Peterson, Carla L. “Doers of the word”: African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998, 1995. 284 p.

Price, Richard. Maroon Societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973. 429 p.

Wesley, Dorothy Porter. Early Negro writing, 1760-1837. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. 658 p.

Wrestling with history: a celebration of African American self-taught artists from the collection of Ronald and June Shelp. New York: Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, 1996. 72 p. (Catalog of two exhibitions of the Shelp collection, held Feb. 16-Mar. 14, 1996 and Mar. 27-Apr. 29, 1996 at the Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York. Exhibition also held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Oct., 1996)

http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/
Lest We Forget: Vast aray of links and resources covering slavery, anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement to the present day. IncludesAfrican-American involvement in WWI, WWII, Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

http://education.ucdavis.edu
The Underground Railroad Site. This site showcases the history of the Underground Railroad, including background information, personal narratives, maps, literature, bibliography, and links to other relevant Internet sites.

http://www.buffalosoldiers.net/
Buffalosoldiers.net. This website offers text and information on these renowned African-American soldiers in the old west, as well as links to many other sites concerned with African-American Military History.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html
American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology. This site presents a sampling of some of the interviews given to over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South by writers and journalists under the aegis of the Works Progress Administration. These former slaves provided first-hand accounts of their experiences on plantations, in cities, and on small farms.

http://www.blackfacts.com/
Black Facts Online: A searchable database of historical events, experiences, and achievements of African-Americans. Individuals may be search by date or by keyword.

http://www.gale.com/library/resrcs/blkhstry/
Black History Month Resource Center: Gale Research site provides historical and biographical information as well as educational activities and quizzes. A briefly annotated time line highlights events from 1619 to the present. Literature sections summarizes 35 books taken from the Schomburg Center Guide to Black Literature.

http://www.sankofaheritage.com
This website offers information on free-persons of color, African-American artisans, and 19th century African-American history.

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